After defining the purpose, the basic operation idea of patent mining is to observe from the overall macro perspective and accurately choose the breakthrough point and focus:
1. Guide patent mining from the height of industrial chain and technology chain. Patent mining is highly technical and professional. Only by observing the industries and technical fields of technological innovation projects in a relatively macro way can we significantly improve the overall level of patent mining, taking into account both the technological innovation itself and its position, role and value in the industrial chain and technological chain, and truly "see only the trees, but not the forest".
2. From the comparison of existing technologies, pay attention to differences and contributions to patent mining. Generally speaking, patent technology can not be separated from the support of existing technology. The novelty and creativity of patents basically require technological innovation to make technological progress and contributions to existing technologies. It can be seen that in patent mining, we must base ourselves on the existing technology, find out the differences between innovative technology solutions and existing technology, and focus on this difference to determine the true contribution of technological innovation solutions to existing technology.
3. Mining patents from the perspective of cultivating and perfecting patent portfolio. Patent mining is not only the mining of isolated technical points with substantial technical contributions scattered in the overall technical scheme, but more importantly, through comprehensive and sufficient mining, it is necessary to cultivate and establish mutually supportive and complementary patent portfolios. For its technological innovation, we should distinguish between primary and secondary levels, clearly distinguish which technological innovation is the core technology, which is the basic technology and which is the peripheral technology, and then determine the role and importance of each patent, and distinguish between core patents, basic patents and peripheral patents, so as to formulate different strategies for effective management in the subsequent patent maintenance and management, and even manage it as an important patent asset.
4. Explore patents from the perspective of identifying patent risks as early as possible. It is very important to pay attention to the early identification of patent risks in the process of patent mining. The advantage is that the enterprise can adjust the technical scheme, change the technical direction or adopt alternative technical means as soon as possible, which can not only reduce the sunk cost of technology research and development, save valuable time of technology research and development, but also take measures as soon as possible for patent risks that the enterprise can't avoid, seize all possible opportunity windows and properly deal with them at the right time.